FTP root Folder

Hi - I have 2 domains hosted on my OS X snow leopard Server.
I would like to have my users FTP in different location of the server - I cannot find a way to set the FTP to do this - it looks like it has to be one location and shared point only - But ideally i don't want the users to see each others directory.
Any help is much appreciated

I don't think you can get the built-in server to act differently based on the hostname the user accessed via - there's nothing in the FTP connection that indicates how they got to your server (unlike a HTTP request which does include the hostname of the URL).
So typically this is done by creating usernames in each domain (e.g. [email protected], [email protected]) which are used as the FTP login. If you take that approach then you can send people to different locations when they log in - you'll just need to set each account accordingly.
The alternative is to use a different server such as CrushFTP which can run multiple services on different IP address/ports, each of which has its own set of accounts, sharepoints, etc. In this way user 'bob' can log in and depending on which address he uses, he gets different content (assuming 'bob' was a valid account in both domains.

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14: public static Session sess = null;
15:
16: %>
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